Best Particulate Media Podcasts (2025)

Here's to a good day. I hope you had one, too. EnterpriseSplaining is the podcast where the hosts try to explain Star Trek: Enterprise to each other! Join Jamie, Bill, and Maria as they attempt to make sense of this 22-year-old show that represents one of the strangest chapters of Star Trek history. https://enterprisesplaining.captivate.fm/listen…

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Every Day's 11 6:32

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The Ezra Klein Show: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ta-nehisi-coates-on-bridging-gaps-vs-drawing-lines/id1548604447?i=1000728872635 On The Media: Jamelle Bouie Says Your Fear of Trump Isn't Helping https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jamelle-bouie-says-your-fear-of-trump-isnt-helping/id73…

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It's The Ten Day Commandments! 6:39

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10 is only a round number because we've decided to treat it as such. That's true of many things we think of as inevitable or immutable. What if we decided not to? MEtGnbc62iL0kNDq6KMh

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Every Day, Nein? Ja! 3:24

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They say there's a particular pronoun that's been giving people the vapors recently.

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Oops, I Hate it Again! 1:37:52

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 14 “Stigma,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. T'Pol has to deal with some of the repercussions from the episode "Fusion," Phlox has to explain HIPPA laws to Archer, and Trip has an exciting B-plot involving one of Phlox's wives. Also, all the Vulcans lie all the time. As per usu…

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I'm Every Day The Eighth, I Am! 2:36

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Every day the eighth, I am, I am. I'm still trying to shrug off the vocal effects of this cold, and it's a good excuse to plug the podcast of my client Michèle Voillequé. Michèle is a singer and a voice teacher living in Berkeley, California. Her podcast, Can't Wait To Hear You, is at https://cantwaittohearyou.com, and her website is https://mvmusi…

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Looking at South American Mastodons with Dr. Andrea Loayza 26:02

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Today, I’m joined by Dr. Andrea Loayza, a leading Chilean ecologist and Associate Professor at the University of La Serena. Her research focuses on plant–animal interactions, seed dispersal, and biodiversity in arid ecosystems. From desert rodents to extinct megafauna, her work uncovers how life adapts in some of Earth’s harshest environments.…

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Every Day for A Week! 2:40

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It's an arbitrary milestone, but it still feels good. High fives all around.

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Every Day The Sixth 2:48

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In which I explain my disdain for "generative" A.I.

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Every Day For A Work Week 2:12

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https://www.history.com/articles/five-day-work-week-labor-movement

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Every Day for A Quartet 3:59

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Realistic goal setting FTW.

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Every Day for A Trio 2:16

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Today I did some stuff.

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Every Day for A Brace of Days 7:02

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In which I increase my streak by 100%, and remind myself not to sweat the small stuff.

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Second Contact: Only Murders in the Enemy Mine! 37:48

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 13 “Dawn,” now that Maria and Jamie have watched it. We also discuss the Memory Alpha page on feet and have an extra special edition of Two Truths and a Lie courtesy of our friends over at First Flight Podcast. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened…

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Every Day For A... Episode The First 2:30

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The very first EDFA. What it is (for now) and who I am (also for now).

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Only Murders in the Enemy Mine! 1:03:49

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 13 “Dawn,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. What if Enterprise tried to tackle the greatest TNG ep of all time, “Darmok” and mixed it up with 1985 sci-fi film “Enemy Mine?” And what if it was Trip facing off with the He-Man villain Rattlor! Sounds like a recipe for success! Riker…

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Away Mission to Quantum Leap! 39:51

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We are taking a short break from Star Trek Enterprise this week to bring you this special bonus episode about Quantum Leap. Jamie tells Maria and Bill about her experience watching Quantum Leap for the first time after having already seen quite a bit of Scott Bakula in Enterprise. We now have merch! Show your love for EnterpriseSplaining and the cu…

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Second Contact: I'm Too Sexy For This Episode! 23:15

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 12 “The Catwalk,” now that Maria and Bill have watched it and can tell us exactly how much of a whiney baby they think Malcolm was acting throughout this episode. Plus, in our Mammary Alpha segment we discuss the Memory Alpha page for “buttocks.” A word…

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I'm Too Sexy for This Episode! 1:45:21

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 12 “The Catwalk,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The entire Enterprise crew has to spend eight days living inside one of the ship's nacelles without showers or a change of clothes, but Archer still somehow manages to find a way to watch his beloved water polo and Malcolm acts …

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Second Contact: Trip Tucker, Swamp King! 40:07

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 11 “Precious Cargo,” now that Maria, Jamie, and Bill have watched it. Rebecca Watson joins us once again to hear our thoughts now that we've all watched this episode! A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Trip Tucke…

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Trip Tucker, Swamp King! 1:48:00

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 11 “Precious Cargo.” An extra-long bumper episode this week with a very special guest explainer! Join us as Rebecca Watson, having never watched Enterprise OR listened to our show explains this episode to us. Trip gets stranded in a swamp with Padma Lakshmi and Rebecca tries to tell us what is …

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Second Contact: It was Misogyny All Along! 39:36

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10 “Vanishing Point” now that Jamie, Bill, and our guest Kevin from The Flopcast have watched it, and we all have a lot of thoughts on how much we all kind of hated the twist ending. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this …

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It Was Misogyny All Along! 1:50:20

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10 “Vanishing Point,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Watch as Jamie, Bill, and our special guest Kevin try to figure out what the heck is going on in this episode. Is it an alternate universe? A time shift? Or just plain old misogyny? The answer will almost certainly disappoin…

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Second Contact: Three Body Problems! 54:43

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 9 “Singularity” now that Jamie and Maria have actually seen it. Also, we inexplicably have not yet scared away Nicole Gugliucci who came back this week to chat with us about the episode and tell us about her favorite and least favorite examples of astro…

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Three Body Problems! 1:37:31

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 9 “Singularity,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. It's the Enterprise version of a three body problem as mysterious radiation coming from a black hole causes the crew to start taking their jobs seriously. Too seriously, in fact, as Hoshi obsesses over a recipe, Trip obsesses over…

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Second Contact: Dude, Where's My Communicator?! 40:04

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 8 “The Communicator.” Now that Bill and Maria have watched it, we get to hear their thoughts on how Captain Archer messed up getting back a piece of equipment they left on a planet so hard that he managed to start a full-on world war. A word of warning:…

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Dude, Where's My Communicator?! 1:17:53

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 8 “The Communicator,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. Malcolm accidently leaves his communicator on a pre-contact planet and attempts to recover it go sideways when Archer, for the first time ever, decides to take advice from T'Pol, which he then misapplies to disastrous conseq…

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A Discussion of Jeffrey Pine with Dr Hugh Safford 44:04

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Welcome to the environmental review, where we bring environmental research and policy to light. Today we’re joined by one of the most respected voices in forest and fire ecology—Dr. Hugh D. Safford. With decades of experience leading research across the Sierra Nevada and beyond, Dr. Safford has shaped how we understand wildfire, climate change, and…

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Second Contact: Mission T’Polsible! 26:08

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 7 “The Seventh,” now that Jamie and Bill have watched it. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Mission T'Polsible!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week. EnterpriseSplaining is proud to…

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Mission T’Polsible! 1:31:52

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 7 “The Seventh,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. T'Pol has some unfinished business with a fugitive she never managed to capture. She asks Archer to join her on the mission, which is good because it starts to trigger memories she didn't know she had. Much like the EnterpriseSpl…

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Second Contact: The E-Team! 57:48

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 6 “Marauders,” now that Maria and Jamie have watched it. Plus, in the first ever Enterprise podcast crossover extravaganza, we are joined by Abby and Chris from the First Flight Podcast. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before t…

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The E-Team! 1:05:11

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 6 “Marauders,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. In 2001, an unprepared crew was sent to deep space by Starfleet on a mission they were not prepared for. These men (and nearly a third women) promptly escaped orbit. Today, still wanted by multiple alien governments, they survive ba…

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Second Contact: Sickbay Slumber Party! 29:02

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 5 “A Night in Sickbay,” now that Maria, Bill have watched it. We also have our special guest medical expert Topher back on to chat more about how medical science is portrayed on Star Trek. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before…

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Sickbay Slumber Party! 1:51:33

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 5 “A Night in Sickbay,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. Archer brings his dog to the planet of easily offended people, despite it very obviously being a bad idea, and then has a temper tantrum when asked to apologize. Also, Porthos is sick, there is an escaped bat, and for some…

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Second Contact: Always Read the Fine Print! 23:54

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 4 “Dead Stop,” but now Jamie and Bill have watched it. After going through a minefield last episode, the Enterprise and crew aren't in the best of shape. Malcolm has to have Phlox Worm PT and the ship is going to take years to repair. But they find a re…

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Always Read the Fine Print! 1:28:26

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 4 “Dead Stop,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. After going through a minefield last episode, the Enterprise and crew aren't in the best of shape. Malcolm has to have Phlox Worm PT and the ship is going to take years to repair. But they find a repair station that is going to sol…

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Second Contact: Malcolm Gets Poked! 32:15

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 3 “Minefield,” now that Maria and Jamie have actually watched it. And we have special guest Erica on to tell us about the history of the Vulcans and Romulans! A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, go listen to that f…

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Malcom Gets Poked! 1:11:29

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 3 “Minefield,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Hey everyone it’s a Malcolm-focused episode which means the writers are shaking the Etch-A-Sketch and giving us another new take on the character. It all starts with an awkward breakfast and then HOLY CRAP things are blowing up. Can…

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How Raindrops Can Be Turned into Electricity 8:24

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Today’s episode is all about rain — but not the kind that ruins your beach day. Instead, we’re looking at how raindrops themselves could become tiny power plants. A 2025 study from the National University of Singapore, published in ACS Central Science, has shown that water droplets can be used to generate clean, renewable electricity using a brand-…

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Light, Particulate Matter and ... Thyroid Cancer? 12:27

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I’m your host, and today we’re talking about a new study that brings together two things we all encounter daily—air pollution and city lights—and links them to something unexpected and alarming: thyroid cancer in children. This study, titled “Perinatal Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Risk of Pe…

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Second Contact: The Facts of Warp! 16:33

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Surprise! We are changing our format around a little for season 2 and now, you’re going to see us in your feed weekly! Instead of reviewing the previous episode and going into the next one all in one episode, we are undertaking new Second Contact missions! Every other week, we’ll look at the episode we watched the week before, after everyone has wa…

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The Facts of Warp! 1:46:54

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 2 “Carbon Creek,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. T’Pol tells Trip and Archer that they might not have their historical facts straight. This episode is widely considered one of the best Enterprise episodes, and we think we might agree. Does it have to do with the fact that none…

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Mediocre White Man Energy! 1:46:38

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 1 “Shockwave Part II,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Suliban have taken over the Enterprise, Captain Archer is stuck in the future, and Starfleet is considering canceling the entire deep space program. The only way to save it is for Archer to give a rousing speech over a …

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How Duke Researchers are Improving CRISPR 10:01

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Today, we’re diving into one of the most exciting breakthroughs in genetic science—an expansion of the CRISPR-Cas9 toolbox that could change medicine, agriculture, and environmental protection. CRISPR is a gene editing technology that can edit humans, plants and more. It might just be the key in our fight against the warming climate. Scientists fro…

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Computer! End Season One! 1:49:01

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We have reached the end of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1! Jamie, Bill, and Maria are joined by Sue from the Women at Warp podcast to take a step back and talk about what it’s been like gettin’ from there to here. Who do we like? Who do we hate? What is this show even about? Why are we still watching it? How did we get through a full season? At wha…

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QUADCOIL - A new breakthrough in fusion reactors 11:51

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Today, we’re diving into a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology—one that could bring us closer to a future powered by clean, limitless energy. This breakthrough comes from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where physicists have developed a new computer code called QUADCOIL. This innovation could simplify and reduce the costs of stellarators…

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A Discussion on Corals with Dr Andrea Grottoli 33:34

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Welcome to The Environmental Review! Today, we’re joined by Dr. Andrea Grottoli, a leading marine scientist and professor at The Ohio State University. A global expert in coral resilience and climate change, she has led groundbreaking research on coral bleaching and ecosystem adaptation. She also developed UZELA, an innovative technology that enhan…

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Lady Planet Genocide! 1:32:08

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 26 “Shockwave Part 1,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Fam, it’s been a long road, but we’ve finally made it to the season one finale! Things go from bad to worse as the Enterprise crew accidentally commits genocide before a time wizard shows up to solve all their problems and a…

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Two Nights at The Roxbury! 1:33:27

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SPECIAL GUEST: Jarrah from the Women at Warp podcast We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 25 “Two Days and Two Nights,” but only guest-explainer Jarrah has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew finally makes it to Risa, where heteronormativity abounds. It’s two days and two nights of scams, injuries, sexy language less…